Sheriff's academy closed

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has closed the Sheriff's Training Academy for a month amid questions raised by state inspectors over equipment, crowding, testing-security procedures and whether filming of a reality TV show at the academy is distracting cadets from training. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

The closure came May 6 after Baca recently received a copy of the inspection report from the state Commission on Peace Officers Standards & Training, which certifies law enforcement academies and reviewed the sheriff's facilities last June and July.

Among the findings, POST inspectors cited some instructors who gave cadets answers to test questions and allowed others to retake driving tests multiple times in order to pass, according to a copy of the confidential 29-page report obtained by the Daily News.